Economic Analysis of Regulation.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on the Economic Analysis of Regulation took place March 17 online. Research Associates Steve Cicala of Tufts University and James M. Poterba of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology organized the meeting, which was supported by Smith Richardson Foundation Grant 2021-2606. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Bentley Coffey, University of South Carolina, and Patrick McLaughlin, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, "Regulation and Economic Growth: Evidence from British Columbia's Experiment in Regulatory Budgeting"

* Filip Babalievsky, University of Minnesota; Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER; Lee E. Ohanian, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; and Edward C. Prescott, Arizona State University and NBER, "The Sky Is Not the Limit: How Commercial Real Estate Regulations Affect US Output and Welfare"

* Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER, and Zi Yang Kang, Stanford University, "Robust Bounds for Welfare Analysis" (NBER Working Paper 29656)

* Matthias Breuer, Columbia University; Christian...